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Author: Marianne Mithun Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107392802 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 800
Book Description
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Author: Marianne Mithun Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107392802 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 800
Book Description
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Author: Hervas Laboratories of American Linguistics Publisher: ISBN: Category : Indians of North America Languages : en Pages : 28
Book Description
No. 1. Bibliographies of lesser North American linguistic families, by Thomas Noxon Toomey.--No. 3. Proper names from the Muskhogean languages.--No. 4. Relationships of the Chitimachan linguistic family.--No. 5. Grammatical and lexical notes on the Keres language (Acoma-Laguna dialect) of the Keresan stock.--No. 6. Analysis of a text in the Apalachi language (Muskhogean stock).
Author: Lyle Campbell Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195140508 Category : America Languages : en Pages : 527
Book Description
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
Author: George Peter Murdock Publisher: ISBN: 9780875362052 Category : Ethnology Languages : en Pages : 506
Book Description
Approximately 15,000 entries dealing with ethnography, history, psychology, human biology and medicine of native peoples of North America. Includes published materials issued before and during 1972.
Author: Marianne Mithun
Author: Marianne Mithun
Author: Hervas Laboratories of American Linguistics
Author: Lyle Campbell
Author: Thomas Noxon Toomey
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Author: George Peter Murdock
Author: Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries
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Author: Boston Public Library